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<h2>Budget Shares of British Households </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section from 1980 to 1982
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  1519
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  households
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  United Kingdown
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(BudgetUK)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>wfood</dt><dd><p>budget share for food expenditure</p>
</dd>
<dt>wfuel</dt><dd><p>budget share for fuel expenditure</p>
</dd>
<dt>wcloth</dt><dd><p>budget share for clothing expenditure</p>
</dd>
<dt>walc</dt><dd><p>budget share for alcohol expenditure</p>
</dd>
<dt>wtrans</dt><dd><p>budget share for transport expenditure</p>
</dd>
<dt>wother</dt><dd><p>budget share for other good expenditure</p>
</dd>
<dt>totexp</dt><dd><p>total houshold expenditure (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)</p>
</dd>
<dt>income</dt><dd><p>total net houshold income (rounded to the nearest 10 UK pounds sterling)</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>age of household head</p>
</dd>
<dt>children</dt><dd><p>number of children</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Blundell, Richard,  Alan   Duncan and  Krishna  Pendakur (1998) &ldquo;Semiparametric estimation and consumer demand&rdquo;, <EM>Journal of Applied Econometrics</EM>, <B>13(5)</B>, 435&ndash;462.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : <a href="http://jae.wiley.com/jae/">http://jae.wiley.com/jae/</a>.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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